TELEGRAM TO A. G. SHLYAPNIKOV

Published:First published in 1942 in LeninMiscellany XXXIV.

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12. II. 1919

ShlyapnikovAstrakhan

Yourtelegram about Baku
affairs[1]received. I hope you
understand the tremendous importance of the question and
will take the most energetic steps to make use of the feeling
among the Baku people for swift and decisive action.
Guarantee safety for those who come over to us. Telegraph
more details.

LeninChairman, Council of People’s Commissars

[1]OnFebruary 6, 1919, Shlyapnikov reported to Lenin
information he had received from Baku to the effect that the workers of
Baku enterprises and the sailors were hostile towards the
British occupationists, that the ships, on which there were still
Russian sailors, were ready to go over to the side of the Soviets, and
that the Baku workers would start an uprising to coincide with
the Red Army attack.